Building creativity through online discussion forums
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Keywords
high order thinking skills, creating skills, online discussion forums, interaction, Virtual Classroom, virtual classroom
Abstract
The objective of this study was to motivate students to develop high thinking skills, specifically “creating” through online discussion forums. For this purpose, a proposal was presented; the first step was to create a Virtual Classroom for students to actively interact in the discussion forums. The proposal lasted 15 weeks and during the intervention students had to post and participate in 5 discussion forums about different topics related to the English Center syllabus for Level Four. The sample were 30 students from the English Center at Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo who filled an initial and a satisfaction survey and took a pre-test and a post-test. There were two research groups, the experimental and the control one. Once the intervention concluded, the scores of the experimental group in the pre-test, post-test were analyzed, at the same time, the pre-test, and post-test of the experimental group and control group were compared. The students’ participation in the online discussion forums was assessed by applying a rubric. The statistic Chi-square was used to prove the hypothesis. The teacher’s effective feedback, the time students had to participate in the discussion forums, and the environment (virtual) played an important role in this research. It was concluded that the students interaction in the online discussion forums influence positively in the developing of the “creating” thinking skill.
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Martha Lucía Lara Freire, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo Riobamba - Ecuador
Teacher of the Language Center of the Higher Polytechnic School of Chimborazo. Master in Linguistics Applied to English language learning.
Silvia Nataly Bejarano Criollo, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo Riobamba - Ecuador
Teacher of the Language Center of the Higher Polytechnic School of Chimborazo. Master in Linguistics and Didactics of teaching foreign languages.
Wilson Gonzalo Rojas Yumisaca, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo Riobamba - Ecuador
Teacher of the Language Center of the Higher Polytechnic School of Chimborazo. Master in Distance Education and open